Yesterday we posted about a Guardian story titled '‘Life in Palestine 20 years on from the Oslo accord – in pictures‘, Sept. 21, which included one photo of a protest in Gaza City with a caption claiming that the Palestinians were demonstrating in response to "Jewish settlers" who had recently "stormed" the al-Aqsa mosque. This…

She was the plucky young woman who, in splendid defiance of one of the world's most repressive societies, steered a car through the streets of the city of Khobar, railing as she went against the misogyny of laws that make it illegal for women in Saudi Arabia to drive.

In The Wall Street Journal, Sohrab Ahmari interviews the Saudi rights campaigner Manal al-Sharif, who got behind the wheel in Saudi Arabia and then met the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The US sought Pakistan's help in 1998 to prevent Osama bin Laden from launching an al-Qaeda attack against it, with then president Bill Clinton asking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to use his influence over the Taliban.

Jordanian Islamic academic Ishaq Farhan appealed on Sunday to Jordan's King Abdullah to take urgent action in protecting Al-Aqsa Mosque. Farhan urged King Abdullah to provide political support and protection for the Awqaf employees charged with Aqsa Mosque's management.

Tuesday, October 8: Today I had to sit and listen as one of my Saudi students did a TED Talk presentation about "Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi woman who dared to drive." My student, a female, criticized this woman, who dared to challenge a society's rules about women driving. I believe Manal al-Sharif is to be…

Today's news brought the following, US sought Pakistan's help in 1998 to avert al-Qaeda attack: Document, which is a mediocre story at best, but the documents referred to in the report help to form a body of circumstantial evidence that the term "al-Qa'ida" was invented by the CIA. The Economic Times report about Al-Q brings-up…